re: The average 30-year fixed mortgage rate jumps to 7.50%

I waste plenty of money but the money I waste , with my salary as a single man, isn’t enough to buy right now. You can’t necessarily even sacrifice some then live in a basic cheaper house depending where you are because of other factors. Unless you are making 100,000 straight out of college and had a nice chunk of college job money stashed away, you aren’t buying in Baton Rouge. Anywhere decently safe, doesn’t have a starter house price. It just is what it is. Everything is ridiculous.

Things might go back around but while younger generations may have voted for people that caused this, boomers in civilian life have no clue. You can’t work at a hardware store and your wife stay home and sometimes sale Tupperware and buy a house. And most of Congress has been Boomers the last twenty years so … it is what it is. Nothing is more annoying than people bitching about generations. They all have their faults. After WW2 it was down hill. The better times, technology, etc didn’t help the human behavior so I don’t blame and just blindly throw out “ok boomer” and it’s not fair to call everyone a millennial. Pet peeve , the dumbasses I work with that are millennials who call the new kids millennials.